OK, I got the 8700 today and it's just standing on my table. Projecting same screensize as with my old XGA DLP projector. Using Denon 3910 + DVI (10 m). Everything seems great. Excellent picture. I still have ambient light i.e. can't really tell anything about contrast. The picture is great out of the box so far.
But my first A/B comparison between the 8700 and the XGA DLP reveals a slightly bigger screendoor !!!. What on earth is going on here. It seems that the grid width is the same on the HD2+ chip as on the older DLP XGA chip i.e. the total area of the inactive grid is larger for the HD2+ chip... Anyways sitting back more than 1.5 x screen width handles this problem. I was just expecting that it would be ok to sit much closer with this better resolution - surprise to me !
/ Hli
But my first A/B comparison between the 8700 and the XGA DLP reveals a slightly bigger screendoor !!!. What on earth is going on here. It seems that the grid width is the same on the HD2+ chip as on the older DLP XGA chip i.e. the total area of the inactive grid is larger for the HD2+ chip... Anyways sitting back more than 1.5 x screen width handles this problem. I was just expecting that it would be ok to sit much closer with this better resolution - surprise to me !
/ Hli